Publish and Share

Three states control who can see content: draft, published, and unlisted. The state lives at the page and skript level (collections are just organizers — they don't have a publish state of their own). Most of the time you'll just toggle Publish and move on — but here's the full picture for when you need it.

The three states

State	Visible to	Listed in navigation	Use case
Draft	Only you (and collaborators with edit rights)	No	Work in progress
Published	Everyone	Yes	Ready for students
Unlisted	Anyone with the link	No	Hidden practice exercises, easter eggs, links from a class chat

Drafts are completely private. Published pages show up in your skript's table of contents, in your collection's index, and on your front page. Unlisted pages skip all of that — you have to know the URL.

When unlisted shines

A second-attempt practice exercise that should only be reachable from a "try harder" link

A skript you're field-testing with a small group before unveiling it

"Solution" pages that you only link to from the question page

A draft you want a colleague to review without making it public

Publishing at two levels

Publishing happens at the page and skript level — independently. Collections are purely organizational containers; they don't have their own publish state.

Collection (organizational only — no publish state)
 ├── Skript A (published)
 │    ├── Page 1 (published)  ← visible
 │    ├── Page 2 (draft)      ← invisible
 │    └── Page 3 (unlisted)   ← invisible in nav, visible by URL
 │
 └── Skript B (draft)         ← entire skript invisible regardless of pages

A page is only publicly visible if the page AND its skript are both published. You can take a whole skript offline temporarily by toggling its publish status, without touching any individual page.

Common gotcha

A published page inside a draft skript is not visible. Students get a 404. When launching new content, publish from the bottom up: pages first, then the skript. To take content offline, flip the skript to draft — every page inside disappears at once.

How to publish

Three places to toggle the state:

Top toolbar of the page editor — the Publish dropdown
Page list in the manage drawer — quick toggle next to each page
Page builder dashboard — bulk view, drag-and-drop reorder, batch toggles

For skripts, use the skript editor or the dashboard.

In the page list, each page shows a small icon after its title that mirrors the Publish toggle's color coding: a green check for published, an amber dash for draft, and a violet crossed-out eye for unlisted.

URLs are stable and shareable. Once you've got a published page at eduskript.org/<slug>/<col>/<skript>/<page>, share that URL anywhere:

Email — paste the link
LMS (Canvas, Moodle, Schoology, etc.) — add as an external link
Class chat (Discord, Slack, Teams) — paste, get a preview card with title + description
Printed handout — generate a QR code from any free service

The share icon in the page toolbar copies the URL to your clipboard. You can also click any heading in the rendered page to copy a link directly to that heading.

Anchor links

Every heading has an automatic ID derived from the heading text. Click a heading in your published page → URL gets a #anchor-name fragment.

eduskript.org/marie/intro-stats/descriptive/measures#mean-and-median
                                                    ↑ anchor link

When you change a heading's text, its anchor changes too. Old anchor links still land on the page (no 404), but they don't auto-scroll to the right place. So if you rename a heading after sharing the link, students get the page but not the section.

Stable anchors for important sections

If you know you'll link to a specific section repeatedly (e.g. from a syllabus), pin the heading text early and don't change it.

Eduskript generates Open Graph metadata automatically:

Title — your page title
Description — your page description, or auto-extracted excerpt
Image — your page's OG image (set in page settings) or your default front-page OG image

So when someone pastes your link into Slack, Discord, Twitter, etc., they get a preview card. Same for messaging apps that respect OG.

Updating published content

Save and the changes are live — no need to re-publish. Eduskript doesn't have a "stage" environment for published content; the published version IS the live version.

If you want a sandbox to work in before going live, do one of:

Keep it as a draft until ready, then toggle to published in one go
Use a separate "drafts" skript for in-progress work, move pages into the live skript when done
Fork your own skript as a sandbox copy, edit there, then copy changes back

Most teachers find option 1 sufficient.

Taking content offline

Toggle published → draft. The page disappears immediately. Students hitting the URL see "Page not found." If you want to leave a redirect or a "this content has been retired" message, use a published page with that note instead of fully unpublishing.

Publishing cheat sheet

Goal	Where
Toggle a page draft/published	Top toolbar of page editor → Publish dropdown
Mark a page as unlisted	Same dropdown → Unlisted
Bulk-toggle pages in a skript	Page editor's Manage → page list
Publish/unpublish a whole skript	Skript editor or dashboard
Share a link	Click the share icon, or copy URL bar
Link to a specific section	Click the heading, or paste URL with `#anchor`
Take a section offline temporarily	Toggle the parent skript to draft